In which Emma ditches her dreams of a fancy party at the altar because she realizes they aren’t the point. Continue reading »
A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / accidental confessions / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies / bright shining spots in the very much dark / Chchchchanges / cool/not cool / Corrections / creative nonfiction / criticism / Dear Johns from the Po Biz / definitions / disagreeable/agreeable / drafts / DUENDE / Emma hits a wall / Emma is very lucky / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / EPIC FAIL / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / EPIC WIN / Errata / evaluations / Even goddesses get insulted / failed or otherwise / Failure Schmailure / False Dichotomies / family / Fear and how to face it / hopes and dreams / How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life / inspiration / IRL Drama Llama / kidney stones / learning / learning patience slowly / Losing courage and other freakouts / mullings and ramblings / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / nonfiction / NOT COOL. / perfection is boring. period. / Perspiration? Inspiration? / pictorial representations / poems / poetry / Poetry as therapy / Poetry Exercises / poets / Probably quite a bit TMI / publishing / publishing (or not publishing / random musings / re-purposing / Recharging the mental batteries / rejection slippage / revision / Righting Wrongs / The Drama Llama / The evolution of Emma / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / The grind / the heft of cathedral tunes / The latest medical anomaly / the poem factory / thought for the day / training / visual representations / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions / writing and not writing / Writing Anew / writing life
